[Election-Methods] Clone related problems in Range/Approval

[Juho]

On Apr 18, 2008, at 21:56 , Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:

> The claim that advanced election methods, starting with IRV, will  
> reduce negative campaigning is pure fluff

I agree that this is mostly a problem of its own, not that much  
linked to the used vote counting procedures.

> There are similar systems that would do condorcet analysis on the  
> Range votes, and if a voter rated one Republican at 100 and another  
> at 99, the difference would be trivial in terms of electoral power;  
> such a vote would mean that a Republican win -- either one -- was  
> greatly valued, yet there remained a minor preference....

Also a methods where one could give several candidates full points  
but would still be able to set a preference order between these  
candidates is possible. Actually some Condorcet+Approval methods  
could be said to do this (Approval = simple Range).

Juho






		
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